BELLONA PULVINENSIS, AEDES
a temple mentioned in
three inscriptions
(
CIL vi. 490, 2232, 2233;
DE i. 175), of the Cappadocian
goddess Ma-Bellona, whose worship seems to have displaced that of the
Latin Bellona
during the empire. This temple was probably not built
before the third
century, and its site is unknown. It had no connection
with the pulvinar
of the circus Flaminius (HJ 554; WR 349-350;
RE iii. 256;
PBS
ix. 205-213, where
CIL xiii. 7281, which refers to the
restoration by the
hastiferi (a priestly college of Bellona)
Civitatis Mattiacorum
of a
Mons
Vaticanus, is coupled with the existence of tombstones of
her priests-the
two last inscriptions cited-on the via Triumphalis, to
support the conjecture that this temple was situated somewhere on the
montes Vaticani).
